The string quartets of Danish music's eccentric outsider Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) are passionate works of the composer's youth, representing both his nostalgically romantic side and his profoundly visionary modernity.

For the first time on CD, this recording series presents all 8 quartets in the award-winning young Nightingale String Quartet's distinctly dramatic interpretation

Inkeri Vänskä (b. 1983) was born in a Finnish family residing in Japan and took her first violin lesson there at the age of four. Her family moved to Finland in 1989 where she continued her studies at the Lahti Conservatorium and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Inkeri Vänskä moved to Copenhagen in 2004 and studied with prof. S. Azizian. She has attended masterclasses with P. Vernikov and G. Schulz, among others. She has led the second violins of Orkester Norden, and of the academy orchestras in Finland and Denmark. Inkeri Vänskä was the concert master for the joint project of the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Danish Academy of Music in 2005.

She has assisted on a regular basis in the Copenhagen Philharmonic and the Danish Radio Sinfonietta.

Theese two recordings are from Inkeri's debut concert in 2010, featuring CphPhil Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Osmo Vänskäs and Piano player Anne-Marie Lipsonen.

The concert was recorded By Mark Ford using only TUBE-TECH Microphone preamps.

The waw audio files are the signal from the main AB microphone setup,

a pair of DPA 4006 microphones run straight into two TUBE-TECH PM1A preamps,

feeding a couple of DAD converters. Nothing else. No processing!

Listen to the warm musical sound of theese recordings but also to the beautiful detailed and transparent soundscape.